My Home Ideas

Special Offers

Be the first to know about This Old House contests, sweepstakes, and events and receive special offers and promotions from your favorite home improvement brands. We'll even send you regular reminders to enter our sweepstakes.

If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

buffing scratch from stainless sink?

I replaced my old kitchen sink last year and it looked very nice, until last month I scratched it - my daughter had cooked something with dough and left some blobs in the sink till I found them hours later, and you know what happens to flour and water... I had to sort of chip them off, and wasn't careful enough.

I have googled around and the ideas I have so far are: a solution of 1/2 lemon juice and 1/2 baking soda; copper cleaner; Brasso; and car polishing compound of which I happen to have a can.

Does anyone have any suggestions? The scratches are not deep or widespread, and therefore of course to me they stand out even more.

Re: buffing scratch from stainless sink?

I use Brasso. It's an old military style polish from the days when uniform brass had to be kept highly shined. It used to be oil based and smelled but the newer stuff is water based and is pleasant to use. Most HI stores have it. First sand the scratch with 2000 grit wet/dry sandpaper. Keep the paper wet to avoid more scratches. Then apply Brasso either by hand or preferably with a rotary polisher. You can get a round headlight polisher that fits a hand drill, in an auto parts store that does the job beautifully. I usually go over my two sinks twice a year and the they gleam. Both are over twenty years old (almost as old as me, LOL)
Good luck